The real story of Pablo Escobar is almost impossible to believe, which made it great fodder for the first season of Narcos on Netflix. Now the tale is set to continue in season 2.

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The star of the new Netflix drama on Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel tells Ed Power

Manchester United defender Marcos Rojo has caused anger by posting a picture of the late Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar on his Instagram page.

A man who confessed to hundreds of murders as head of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s army of assassins, has been freed from a maximum security prison under heavy police guard.

Impac winner Juan Gabriel Vasquez on how the slaying of soccer star Andres Escobar marked a tipping point, writes Alan O’Riordan

A highly-regarded former police captain who shot dead a man texting in a Florida cinema has told detectives he was in fear of being attacked.

Masked gunmen blocked traffic on a busy avenue in a Gulf of Mexico coastal city and dumped the bodies of 35 murder victims as horrified motorists watched, authorities said.

ANY loosed-tongued World Cup commentator tempted to describe an own goal as “a tragedy” would do well to note that yesterday, July 2, marked the 16th anniversary of the murder of Andres Escobar, the Colombian player whose final major act for his country had been to put through his own goal in a game against the host nation at USA ‘94.

Anger was mounting throughout the US today regarding a law cracking down on illegal immigration in Arizona.

The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.

A convicted Colombian drug baron with links to two major cartels was shot dead in a Madrid hospital.

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The man who directed hit teams against the Colombian cocaine cartel’s Pablo Escobar fingered a disgraced politician yesterday as being behind the 1989 assassination of leading presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan.

Police have captured a top Colombian drug lord who is said to responsible for “huge volumes” of drugs entering the United States.

BUSINESSMAN Denis O’Brien was evasive and ambivalent during negotiations that secured his consortium the licence to run the State’s second mobile telephone network, the Moriarty Tribunal heard yesterday.

Susanna A Nesmith, Bogota, Colombia